OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 5

Numbers 11:5

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We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

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Numbers 11:2–8

2

The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire abated.

3

The name of that place was called Taberah, because the LORD’s fire burned among them.

4

The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

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We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

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but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”

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The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.

8

The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.

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